- African
American Odyssey: Slavery--The Peculiar Institution (Part 1) - Library
of Congress exhibit explores the methods used by Africans and their
American-born descendants to resist enslavement, as well as to demand
emancipation and full participation in American society.
- African Americans
at Jamestown - Description of early history of slavery at Jamestown,
timeline of pertinent events, and bibliography of further reading.
- The
African-American: A Journey from Slavery to Freedom - Collection
of articles published by the B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library of Long
Island University summarizing American slavery. Includes timelines,
biographies and links to further reading.
- American
Slavery Until 1820 - A brief history of american slavery up till
the compromise of 1820.
- Chronology On
The History Of Slavery, 1619-1789 - this page contains a timeline
of slavery in America from 1619 until "the end", reportedly in 1865
when the 13th amendment to the Constitution offered universal manumission
and abolished slavery. The chronology has been thoroughly researched,
with references at the end of each entry, some pointing to other Web
resources.
- The Dred Scott
Case - Dred Scott, a fifty year-old slave, and his wife Harriet
filed suit for their freedom in the St. Louis Circuit Court. The disposition
of this case, and its infamous ruling, contributed to the tensions leading
to the Civil War.
- History
of the Abolitionist Movement - The Quakers were the first to question
slavery from a moral point of view.
- North American
Slave Narratives - Slave narratives from the beginning of American
slavery until the 1920's. Published by the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill.
- Original
Slave Trade Documents from the 18th and 19th Centuries - This site
provides access to raw data and documentation on a variety of slave
trade topics from the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Published
by the Data and Program Library Service.
- PBS:
Africans in America, Part 1, The Terrible Transformation - Numerous
articles tracing the origins of American slavery from the European incursion
into Africa to mid 18th century America, maps, timelines, illustrations.
- A Positive
Light - Freedom Shackled - The slave ship, Henrietta Marie, speaks
from its watery grave to give us the first true picture of the horror
that men, women and children suffered in the Atlantic slave trade.
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